• I Larry Bird carries the Celtics to series win over the Hawks/11 Monday, May 23, 1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents m II Pillowtex Reformers ruling may be too late 46 vow ‘renewal’ Bv Nancv Concelman Manchester Herald The National Labor Relations In Hungary Board’s decision on whether to recommend that the closing of the Pillowtex Ctorp. be halted may By Girard C. Stelchen garian television minutes after come a week too late for the The Associated Press being named new general secre­ nearly 100 workers who will lose tary of the Hungarian Socialist their jobs. BUDAPEST, Hungary - The Workers’ Party. Joseph McMahon, supervisor selection of Premier Karoly Grosz, 57, is viewed as a leader of NLRB’s Hartford office, said Grosz as the head of the Commu­ in the mold of Soviet leader today an investigation of the nist Party is a victory for reform Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Grosz has situation between the Dallas- and a clear shift from the staunch gained a reputation as a pragma­ based Pillowtex Corp. and United ideology of Janos Kadar, whose tist willing to face unpleasant Auto Workers Local 376, the union !lass LL 32-year grip on power had be­ truths about Hungary’s economic representing local Pillowtex r High come an obstacle to progress, stagnation. workers, should be underway this victory party officials said. "Mr. Grosz’s greatest merit is week and completed within two Iday at Grosz replaced Kadar as gen­ that he has not been afraid to weeks. eral secretary on Sunday night in make decisions that are highly But the company is scheduled :C East a sweeping reshuffle of party unpopular)” said Sandor Dem- to close at the end of this month, to 7-6 in leadership that favored the refor­ jan, president and general man­ and the union leaders who asked regular mists, who now will get their ager of the Hungarian Credit for NLRB’s help in halting the ist East chance to solve Hungary’s deep­ Bank. closing admit it might be a losing ening economic crisis. A Polit­ " I think he will personify effort. The request for injunctive varsity buro member said Kadar had responsibility and push for the relief was submitted by Local 376 two hits asked not to be nominated for the removal of those who are incom­ President Robert Madore last David Kool/Manohaalar Harald ior Scott party leadership. petent and who have thwarted week, along with four other unfair } oats in “ There was no real reform reforms,” Demjan said. NOT THE BOSS — Attorney Stephen T. legal services to the town since stepping labor practice charges against possible as long as (Kadar) was Reformers were clearly on the Penny reviews a document in his law down from the Board of Directors in the company. back.” offensive throughout the If the Hartford office of NLRB in power,” said a prominent office on Main Street. The fprmBr iriayor November, admits he sometimes has to link it’s pa'rty member who spoke on conference. decides the injunctive relief re­ insure. ” condition of anonymity. In debates'* that were oftBA “pf Manchester, „who has provided his remind himself who's the boss. quest has merit, it will send a I before Kadar, who turns 76 Thursday, lively and critical, delegatin report and recommendation to Leonard was named to the newly created relentlessly assailed Kadar and the board’s Washington office, oouts in honorary post of party president called openly for new faces and McMahon said. The Washington at the end of a three-day party new policies. Penny reflects on new life board will examine the case and if lormally conference in which delegates Leading reformists in the party both boards agree the request has ;uts and assailed the veteran leader in a have argued openly for months merit, the Hartford office will be manner unprecedented in the that economic recovery would authorized to submit the request e in the Soviet bloc. fail without political change. now that he’s out of limelight to federal district court, where a jge. Ken ’’This conference marks a Inflation in Hungary reached 18.5 judge will make the final it to left radical change,” Grosz told Hun- percent in the first quarter of this Bv Andrew Yurkovsky a matter of approach as opposed gadflys. decision. ik Savino year, and its gross foreign debt is Manchester Herald to any substantive matter,” he “ If they stood there and they McMahon said some compan­ iond and $18 billion, the highest per-capita said. “ There were a couple of excoriated somebody or implied ies have been reopened as a result followed foreign debt in Eastern Europe. “ The sun rises and sets on Steve mistakes substantively, but I that somebody was on (the) take, of court decisions on injunctive larz. Joe Ex-leader Several of the most vocal Penny as far as he’s concerned.” don’t think they wei*e avoidable. I just made them put up or shut relief requests that make it that by third advocates for change advanced That’s what a “ prominent’'* They just proved by fate to be the up.” far. avino to to key policy- making roles. Republican told the Manchester wrong move.” Former state Sen. Carl Zinsser, “ We do have had a fair level of in uprising Grosz becomes party leader of Herald five years ago when One of those mistakes, he said, who faced Penny in a fight for the success,” McMahon said. But, he added, “ not every request for :hirdona a revamped Politburo trimmed of Democrat Stephen T. Penny, then was his support for the sale of the Fourth District seat in 1983, inneuntil aging bureaucrats and stacked mayor, was running forhis fourth former town park garage on expresses admiration for him. injunctive relief is viewed iree runs with reformers. In the sweeping term on the town Board of Harrison Street to Multi-Circuits “ Steve didn’t try to be all things favorably.” is hopeful McMahon would not comment overhaul, the Politburo shrank to Directors. in 1981. Three months later the to all people, and I give him credit on the merits of Madore’s request hen stole 11 members from the previous 13. Penny, a lawyer who finished company laid off between 150 and for that,” the Republican said. By Andrew Yurkovsky because an investigation hasn’t ther free Eight old members of the his LO-year stint on the board last 250 of its 475 employees. Zinsser said that just as Penny Manchester Herald begun. sacrifice Politburo were dropped in the November, doesn’t believe he As to approach, “ I think I has been accused of being arro­ The “ critical first step” of the n Horn’s reshuffle. A new 108-member v/a/s ever as arrogant as his foes tended to be too inflexible in gant. he himself has been accused BOLTON — Changes in leader­ investigation is determining eurinitis Central Committee replaced the claimed. Six months after his last terms of wanting to do what was of being sarcastic. “ Atleast in my ship in Hungary signal a move whether violations have oc­ t to third former 106-member body, with board meeting, however, he right and not being politic about case, I never set out to be toward greater economic and curred, he said. The board the play, about one-third of old members admits that it has been difficult that or being more accommodat­ sarcastic, and I don’t think Steve political reform that could mean failing to gain re-election to the sometimes to adjust to the fact ing,” Penny said. set out to be arrogant,” he said. examines the company’s reasons le key hit stronger ties between the East for closing, what occurred during r scoring new body. that he is no longer a policy But he said that charges about Theodore R. Cummings, the and West, a leader of the 1956 In a stunning comeback, Reszo maker for the town. his arrogance at board meetings chairman of the Democratic bargaining between the union and uprising now living here said Nyers, who fathered Hungary’s He reflected recently on his have been overstated. He said Town Committee, agreed with company and other factors, he [>adedthe said. today. pioneering economic policies in political career during an inter­ that while he tried to be especially Zinsser that Penny was respected truck out Janos Decsy. who was the chief view in his Main Street office. courteous with the average citi­ of staff to the commander of the See HUNGARY, page 10 “ What I would do differently is zen, he had little tolerance for the See PENNY, page 10 See PILLOWTEX. page 10 nore Aris revolutionary forces during the e Indians uprising, said the chances for reform in Hungary are better now , Barry Zb Itls3-1-<M), than ever, and he called for the Players’ parents face p oeee, United States to implement a I c z-1-oe, program for economic aid to in Horn Zb Hungary and other Eastern Bloc tough court challenge countries. Such an aid program could help build a ’’magnificent bridge” Bv Andrew Yurkovsky ineligible for the season last week between the United States and the Manchester Herald for violating a rule that prohibits and Soviet Union, said Decsy, who is outside play once the season has now a professor of history at Parents seeking the reinstate­ started. The players had taken Greater Hartford Community ment of 21 suspended high school part in the Manchester Raquet College. tennis players are facing a court Club junior championships a Decsy was responding to the opponent with an unbeaten week-and-a-half ago.